民主党正向人工智能公司传递信号：如果他们在下周赢得众议院控制权，将推动对AI实验室进行严厉审查。
Democrats are sending a message to artificial intelligence companies: If their party wins the House next week, they will push for aggressive scrutiny of AI labs.
众议院进步党团主席、得克萨斯州民主党众议员格雷格·卡萨尔（Greg Casar）告诉《政治报》（POLITICO），如果民主党成为多数党，“应该传唤大型AI公司的首席执行官到场，严厉盘问他们给美国民众带来的风险。”他表示，愿意动用传票强制高管出席听证。
Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told POLITICO that Democrats in the majority “should be hauling in the CEOs of the large AI companies and grilling them about the risks that they are imposing to the American people.”He said he was open to using subpoenas to compel executives’ appearance.
这位连任两届的奥斯汀议员说，他已向民主党领导层陈述观点，认为监督和听证调查AI公司应成为党团在民主党控制的众议院中的重点工作之一。
The two-term Austin lawmaker said he has made his case to Democratic leadership that oversight and hearings probing AI companies should be one of the caucus’ focuses in a Democratic-controlled House.
“虽然进步派可能是矛头所指，”他说，“但我们肯定不会孤军奋战，要求这些大型科技公司承担责任。”卡萨尔的言论正值民主党左翼争取影响力、试图影响中期选举后党的议程之际。进步党团上月在华盛顿召集现任和新当选议员，讨论如何利用杠杆推进其优先事项。
“While progressives might be the tip of the spear,” he said, “we are certainly not going to be alone in calling these Big Tech firms to account.”Casar’s comments come as the Democratic Party’s left flank jockeys for influence and seeks to influence the party’s post-midterm agenda. The CPC gathered incumbent and incoming members in Washington last month to discuss how they could use their leverage to advance their priorities.
周四，卡萨尔和其他19名民主党众议员致信OpenAI，就该公司解雇三名安全研究人员一事施压。这封信首先共享给《政治报》，预示了如果民主党在周二夺回众议院并获得广泛调查权，AI公司可能面临的审查。
On Thursday, Casar and 19 other Democrats sent a letter to OpenAI, pressing the company about the firing of three safety researchers. The letter, first shared with POLITICO, previews the scrutiny AI companies could face if Democrats retake the House on Tuesday and gain broad investigative powers.
信中称，这三名研究人员被指控向外部研究人员泄露敏感公司信息。涉事员工对OpenAI的说法提出异议。
The letter says the three researchers were accused of leaking sensitive company information to an outside researcher. The employees have disputed OpenAI’s account.
“这些人事决定并非关乎提出安全担忧或公开发声，”OpenAI发言人表示。“我们积极鼓励关于安全和研究的辩论，并认为这些讨论对于做出正确决策至关重要。我们依然致力于与国会及相关委员会就AI安全问题进行建设性接触。” 卡萨尔此前曾要求AI公司在国会作证。在科技公司披露了一系列网络攻击后，他呼吁顶尖AI实验室的高管到国会出席听证，并要求提供有关事件的信息。他随后称这些回应不充分。
“These personnel decisions were not about raising safety concerns or speaking out,” an OpenAI spokesperson said. “We actively encourage debate about safety and research and consider these discussions essential to making the right decisions. We remain committed to engaging constructively with Congress and relevant committees on AI safety.”Casar has previously demanded that AI companies testify before Congress. After tech companies disclosed a string of cyberattacks, he called for the executives of the top AI labs to come before Congress and asked for information about the incidents. He later called their responses insufficient.
众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯的发言人未立即回应置评请求。
A spokesperson for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
信中写道，这些解雇“引发了对OpenAI内部如何对待举报人，以及OpenAI员工能在多大程度上与外部各方接触的担忧，包括当这些外部各方正在对公司的做法进行独立调查时”，议员们写道。
The letter said the firings “raise concerns about how whistleblowers are treated inside OpenAI and how much OpenAI employees can engage with external parties, including when those external parties are conducting independent investigations of the company’s practices,” the lawmakers wrote.
民主党人要求OpenAI承诺不解雇举报人，并维持公司目前对其最先进模型的暂停，直到“建立独立的第三方监督”。他们还就解雇事件、模型开发和安全事件提出了额外问题。他们要求在11月12日前作出回应。
The Democrats asked OpenAI to commit to not firing whistleblowers and to maintain the company’s current pause on the its most advanced models until “independent third-party oversight is in place.”They asked additional questions about the firings, model development and security incidents in place. They requested a response by Nov. 12.